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Healthy Food Recipes - Bottle gourd Dal Curry (Sorakkai Kootu)
Posted on: 21/Feb/2015 2:34:38 PM
Ingredients
- Bottle Gourd – 1 nos
- Moong Dal (Pasi Parupu) – ¼ cup
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomato – 2 nos
- Garlic – 5 cloves
- Green Chilli – 1 no
- Curry leaves – a few
- Turmeric Powder – ¼ tbsp
- Sambar Powder – 1 tbsp
- Salt – as required
- Cooking Oil – 3 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – ¼ tbsp
To Grind
- Coconut- a small piece
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Method of Preparation:
- Soak moong dal for about 15 minutes in water.
- Peel of the skin from bottle gourd, wash it thoroughly and cut into small sized pieces.
- Finely chop onion and tomato and keep separately.
- Heat the pan with 2 spoons of oil and add minced garlic, splinted green chilli, curry leaves and onion. Saute it well until the onion colour turns golden brown.
- Then add tomato and saute until it gets shrinks and the raw smell leaves.
- Now add the chopped bottle gourd, saute well and add the soaked moong dal, turmeric powder, sambar powder and the required salt.
- Mix it well for about 1 minute and add required quantity of water and pressure cook it for about 3 whistles.
- In the meantime, heat the pan and add cumin seeds and grated coconut and dry roast it and grind it in a mixer with the addition of water.
- Once you open the lid of the pressure cooker, add this grinded paste and mix well. Allow it to boil for about 2 to 3 minutes.
- Finally heat the pan with oil and add mustard seeds for tempering and add it on top of the dish.
- Hot Bottle Gourd Curry is ready to serve!
- It is apt side dish for chapatti.
Tips:
- Smash well the cooked dal and the bottle gourd mix using the ladle, when you are going to prepare this curry as a side dish for chapatti ( use more water while pressure cooking the dal).
- If you are going to use this curry as a side dish for rice, then you need to add very little quantity of water during pressure cook the dal and the bottle gourd.
- You can also avoid using the sambar powder and increase the quantity of green chilli.
- You can also dry roast 1 tbsp of urad dal along with cumin seeds and grind it along with the grated coconut.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
